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What Is Regrouping in Math? A Student Guide

Jan 30, 2025 | Littleton Blog

Master regrouping with this simple and fun guide! Learn how to borrow and carry numbers in addition and subtraction, and practice them with examples.

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Finger Counting: A Great Tool or a Hindering Habit?

Oct 10, 2024 | Littleton Blog

Most children almost intuitively use their fingers as trusty math tools for counting. After all, what better way to understand numbers than with the ten digits at the ends of our hands? But here’s the big question: As kids’ math skills develop, should f..

What Makes a Good Math Teacher?

Feb 7, 2024 | Littleton Blog

Littleton, CO - The instructors at Mathnasium of Littleton are exceptional math educators and outstanding individuals. How do you as a potential consumer know this? First, every individual desiring to work at our center is required to pass two, sometimes ..

Why Not Stand Out at School?

Jan 7, 2024 | Littleton Blog

Why would you choose to blend in at school and in life when you can succeed with distinction? Let Mathnasium of Littleton help nurture your child's natural love for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) related fields of study. Stu..

6 Tips and Tricks for Math Homework Success

Aug 10, 2023 | Littleton Blog

Just the mere mention of math homework brings out strong feelings in most people, and regrettable these feelings are rarely positive. Most children dread it, and their parents, though they may try to maintain a positive game face, dread it too. Here are s..

Are You Inadvertently Teaching Helplessness

Aug 1, 2023 | Littleton Blog

Remember the classic children’s book, The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper. In the story, some toys were on a train that broke down and they needed help. They needed to get over the mountain to get to the children on the other side. The toy clown ..

10 Important Questions to Ask at Parent-Teacher Conferences

Feb 3, 2023 | Littleton Blog

It's that time of year again! Parent-teacher conferences. Here is a list of questions to consider asking your child's teacher at conferences. Arrive With Questions, Leave With a Plan It's always good to go into your conferences with a few questions ..

How To Teach Your Child To Love Learning

Jan 12, 2023 | Littleton Blog

Each of us came into this world actively learning. Absorbing information through all our senses, familiarizing sounds and touches, and learning to expect outcomes. Babies are inquisitive, toddlers are too, yet somehow during our human development, our int..

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